Happy Kids, Healthy Kids

Club Description

Happy Kids, Healthy Kids (HKHK) is a volunteer organization that aims to be an active part of the solution to the childhood obesity epidemic. Several schools in low-income communities do not have the funding nor the resources to provide health education for children, resulting in an increased prevalence of diabetes and obesity. Through a volunteer-run, structured after-school program at elementary schools in Charlottesville and the Boys and Girls Club of Central Virginia, we aim to offer exciting and informative nutrition and physical activity sessions for children, as well as provide parents with information to help maintain healthy habits in their children and themselves. Some examples of nutrition lessons we teach are food groups, how to read and understand nutrition labels, and how to prepare healthy snacks. Moreover, we target our lessons to incorporate both mental and physical health guidance. We hope to defeat childhood obesity in America and build lifelong healthy habits in elementary students, one school at a time.